Thank you for posting this, mzprettykitty. Big kudos to you, courageous enough to brave the non sequitur and downright ugly comments you’re likely to get by posting something like this.

Some of us need to hear it. Others won’t like it.

Oh, and Verlch, you posted non-sequitur comments. Random statistics without references that can be checked are not sufficient to back up your allegations, which, by the way, did in no way address this video or its content.

What I wanted to go on to say (and I may yet) was:

Oh, even if your numbers are substantiated, 15,000 rape convictions out of a population of 150 million is 0.0001, or 1 out of 10,000. Not a particularly high number, especially not compared to the number of women who report rape. There were 66,670 women who reported being raped in 2005, not including attempted rape, sexual assault or threats of rape or sexual assault [US Bureau of Justice Statistics, http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/abstract/cvus/number_of_incidents745.htm, Table 02.].

In other words, if you’re going to say it, back it up.

In the two comments that Verlch posted, he/she … well, I’ll just quote it:

Comment 1:

Single mother households produce 85% of the criminals in the world!!!

All feminists think all normal sex is rape!!!

When did motherhood become oppressive!!!

There is 15,000 rape convictions per year! Out of 150 million men!

We have 1000% higher rape accusation rate of any other country as soon as they started compensation programs for so called victims.

Okay…

1) Teh Numbahs. If you’re going to throw statistics at me, I want to know where they come from. U.S. Bureau of Justice, FBI, CDC: all = good. Wikipedia = okay if they quote and link it. No citation = made up = bad.

2) Relevance. This woman was talking about rape. Her point: men are not held accountable for their roles in perpetuating a culture in which rape occurs; any misogynistic behavior or allowing misogyny to happen is contributing to the problem.

Our good friend Verlch, however, indicated in this post that:

a) single mothers are responsible for rapists existing (women without men = at fault);

There are 1 million false allegations levied by women against men per year. Mostly to give women a leg up during divorce so men wouldn’t stand a chance to get their children. Despite the fact that women gain custody in 90% of divorce proceedings. And women get 40 billion per year paid in child support.

Despite all of that, 75% of all single mothers live below the poverty line!!!

4) Mean mean wimmins! This comment was basically a reiteration of e) above, with the addition of one point:

Women without men are irresponsible with money (wimmins + child support $$ still = poor!! where it go?? wimmins is teh stoopid.)

From what I’ve read, this is unfortunately very, very typical. This is my first documented example, but I fear it won’t be the last.

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